Just throw an inside low rise. The pressure off the fingers makes it cut.
Bullet spin or variations of less than true 9-3, 12-6 spin may seem like they're working at the college level, but for mere mortals like my 12U daughter, it gets hit a lot more than correct curve/screw/drop/rise spin and draws way fewer whiffs. We were just in Colorado for the Sparkler, and this became very apparent. If the spins weren't on the correct axis, the pitch did not move appreciably. Not surprisingly, we've been working on spins a ton since we got back.
I have one. Maybe I'll charge it up and look when we pitch tomorrow. Of course, it will also say daughter is throwing 74 MPH, so take it with a grain of salt.I wonder if a diamond kinetic ball shows the ball movement in its software for this tilted bullet spin pitch since it is just a gyro ball classification?
She’s also in the elite and rare 70+ group where spin can take a backseat to spin.I watched Montana Fouts' last game last night. Lots of bullet spin on her pitches, but she was still effective. Then I flipped to the Yankee/Dodger game to watch Clayton Kershaw pitch. That man didn't throw one pitch with bullet spin, and his curve ball was filthy.
I guess the overhand throw just allows itself to so much more spin than the underhand one.
Here is a link to Kershaw's page on Baseball Savant. He throws his slider 44% of the time and it's almost pure bullet spin. One of things that puzzles me is that a slider (bullet spin) has a good amount of horizontal break, yet in softball there's basically zero break. I think it has to do with the height of the mound and the high overhand release generating some Magnus Force on the bottom side of the baseball due to the downward trajectory.I watched Montana Fouts' last game last night. Lots of bullet spin on her pitches, but she was still effective. Then I flipped to the Yankee/Dodger game to watch Clayton Kershaw pitch. That man didn't throw one pitch with bullet spin, and his curve ball was filthy.
I guess the overhand throw just allows itself to so much more spin than the underhand one.
Here is a link to Kershaw's page on Baseball Savant. He throws his slider 44% of the time and it's almost pure bullet spin. One of things that puzzles me is that a slider (bullet spin) has a good amount of horizontal break, yet in softball there's basically zero break. I think it has to do with the height of the mound and the high overhand release generating some Magnus Force on the bottom side of the baseball due to the downward trajectory.
The slider is still basically a bullet spin (or gyro as they say in baseball) pitch with little to no side spin. Baseballs appear to break a lot more than softballs, it would be interesting to have a decent baseball pitcher throw a softball from their mound to get a comparison.Could it be as simple as an overhand throw is never actually "over the top" (as in coming straight down from 12 o'clock)? Maybe that angle allows for more break.